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Japanese screenwriter (born 1976)

Mari Okada
岡田 麿里
Okada at the 2011 Anime Festival Asia
Born (1976-04-23) April 23, 1976 (age 48)
Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, director

Mari Okada (Japanese: 岡田 麿里, Hepburn: Okada Mari, born 23 April 1976) is a Japanese screenwriter, director and manga artist. She is one of the most prolific writers currently working in the anime industry. She won the 16th Animation Kobe Award.

Among her credits, Okada is best known for her writing and producing work on acclaimed anime series and films, including Toradora!, Anohana, Gosick, The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, and her original manga series and its anime adaptation O Maidens in Your Savage Season.

Early life

Okada was born in Chichibu, Saitama. She has stated that she was often bullied at school and was thus truant to deal with social anxiety. She would consequently spend most of her time alone at home writing stories. She believes that it gradually helped with her anxiety and resocializing. She has also stated that no one in her life "had high hopes for her" and that, as a senior, she was repeatedly told that she “would not survive in the real world.” She went on to enroll at the Tokyo Amusement Media School to study entertainment industry and game design.

Career

Through her studies, Okada developed a passion for screenwriting, but found it difficult to take it seriously as a profession due to her social anxiety. Her earliest jobs included creating scenarios for direct-to-video pornography and transcribing interviews for a magazine. It was through this latter job that she met Tetsurō Amino, who asked her to contribute some of her ideas for the plot of DT Eightron. She went on to write the script for five episodes, and the connection with Amino helped in kickstarting her career. Okada pitched an idea for her first original anime, based on her experience. The screenplay was unpublished, but several elements of it would be used in some of her works. After several years, her reputation within the industry had grown considerably, with the screenplay for numerous successful series. Okada wrote the script for her directorial debut anime film Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. It was well received by critics and was awarded the prize for best animated film at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival.

Works

Manga

Television

Original video animation

Anime films

Live-action films

References

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  9. 星野リリィ原作『おとめ妖怪 ざくろ』がTVアニメ化決定！ 監督には今千秋!!. Animate Times (in Japanese). 7 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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  17. "New Lupin III TV Anime's Staff, Cast, Title Revealed (Updated)". Anime News Network. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 21 March 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  18. "AKB48 Idol Group Gets 1st Anime on Air Next Spring (Updated)". Anime News Network. 17 October 2011. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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  24. "Sailor Moon's Sato, anohana's Okada, Macross' Kawamori Make M3 ~Sono Kuroki Hagane~ Anime". Anime News Network. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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  27. "Studio Trigger Reveals New Kiznaiver Original TV Anime". Anime News Network. 8 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  28. "Girls & Panzer's Mizushima, Anohana's Okada Make Mayoiga TV Anime". Anime News Network. 28 December 2015. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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  34. "VIDEO: Junji Nishimura and Mari Okada Team Up On Saga Prefecture Anime". Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
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  36. "anohana Team Airs Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterun Da Film's Ad". Anime News Network. 22 January 2015. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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  38. "Super Peace Busters Creative Team Unveil Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo Original Anime Film". Anime News Network. 21 March 2019. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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External links

Animation works by screenwriter Mari Okada
Original works
Adaptations
Films
Animation Kobe Individual Award
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